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Christopher Columbus
An Italian explorer who covered 4 voyaged across the Atlantic sea during his journey he met natives. He took over their land which he discovered and killed many natives while during this discovery. -
Mercantilism
It was a way of trading there were colonies that gave to the mother country which was England. -
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment gave many ideas like philosophers who got to show the way they think through books and their skepticism to show different opinions on what they think of things. -
Benjamin Franklin
One of the founding fathers also he was a polymath who had very good knowledge. He also was an author and helped out during the American Revolutionary War -
George Washington
Founding Father of the United States also was the first president. Commander in Cheif of the Revolutionary War. He also fought in the French and Indian War -
Thomas Jefferson
Made the Declaration of Independence was the 3rd president of U.S. He was also responsible for the Louisiana purchase that expanded America -
Andrew Jackson
An American soldier and a political leader. He was the seventh president of America. He was also the one wo start the Indian Removal Act -
Lewis ans Clark
Made a journey west of Mississippi which was known as the Louisiana Purchase.they discovered a native woman who helped them out on the unknown land. -
Abraham Lincoln
He was the 16th president of America. He abolished slavery and gave rights to black people also he lead the confederates(north) who agreed to black having rights -
Jacksonian Democracy
Is a strict democrat party about how, Jackson did well for the people but some may disagree and say it is a "poltical impluse tied to slvaery" -
Westward Expansion
traveled west in hope to find land to be successful this had happened right after the Louisiana Purchase that doubled the country size -
Manifest Destiny
John O'Sullivan used the term Manifest Density in a New York article. Manifest Destiny was used to explaining that settlers should move across the contenit to speard their idead abd their cultures -
Dred Scott
The Dred Scott case was a slave named Dred Scott V. Sandford who wanted his freedom because he believed he could be free. He lived in a free state for couple years and brought it up to the supreme court. -
Federick Douglass
He was an abolitionist he was an anti-slavery activist he protests against Jim Crow and the lynchings happening to slaves.H talked his own ideas about America and also and he welcomed anti-slavery poltics.
